Denis Foo Kune, Ph.D.

I am a scientist, researcher and founder. I focus on security. I launched the cyber-security startup Virta Laboratories with my two co-founders, Ben Ransford and Kevin Fu. In the past few years, I have been working on clinical systems, medical devices, and side-channel analysis. Prior to that, I was working on cellular networks and internet routing.

I did my postdoc at the University of Michigan with Kevin Fu. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota while working with Nick Hopper and Yongdae Kim. My thesis focused on improving security on the wireless medium. I looked at electromagnetic interference attacks on time-varying voltage sensors and vulnerabilities on wireless WAN protocols.

Security startup

Virta Labs provides security tools tailored to healthcare. With a decade of experience in healthcare security, the team at Virta understand the importance of safety and clinical workflow. Virta Labs help healthcare IT focus on the risks that matter.

Cardiac therapy in the developing world is very limited, while good devices are discarded in the USA.

Chosen electromagnetic waveforms can be used to force signal injection on analog sensors.

Part of the map of the US FDA 510(k) devices showing the equivalence relationship between devices.